(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or other entity to discharge a firearm, bows and arrows and other hunting devices, a BB gun, a pellet gun or cannon to detonate an explosive within the corporate limits of the town or to assist any person or persons to engage in any such discharging or detonation, unless such person, entity or corporation has been granted special permission in advance by the Town Marshal or the Town Council.
(B) This section shall not apply to any of the following activities:
(1) Any law enforcement officer who shall discharge a firearm in the lawful performance of his or her duty;
(2) Any person who shall discharge a firearm in the protection of life or property when the surrounding facts and circumstances justify such action; and/or
(3) Any person who shall, in connection with an athletic event, discharge a blank cartridge.
(C) A FIREARM shall be defined as any weapon that is capable or designed to or that may readily be converted to expel a projectile by means of an explosion, explosive mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosive; or contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing than ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator of any part of the compound mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructible effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
(D) This section may be enforced by the Town Marshal, all police officers and any prosecutor or attorney duly appointed, constituted and acting under the authority of the town, the county or the state.
(2014 Code, § D4.1) Penalty, see § 130.99